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Trade Agreement: Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods and/or services
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
Typesetting, desktop publishing
4F001-170206/A
Werk(cw), Janet
Telephone No. - (613) 998-3968
j••••••••@••••••••.••.ca
Line 1, Typesetting, Composition
Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada (FJA) requires typesetting, page formatting and page layout services, preparation of page proofs, page corrections and pre-press related to each Part of the Federal Courts Reports (FCR). The page layout will be produced in in bilingual side by side format, and, depending on the component of the Part, with separate English and French pages.
The typesetting, page formatting and page layout required must follow the standards as set out in the FCR Formatting Standards and Guidelines (FCR Standards).
FJA also requires preparation of Portable Document Format (PDF) files for each component of the Part.
The Contractor must use Adobe InDesign CS5.5 or higher, Adobe Acrobat Professional and Microsoft Word 2010.
The period of the Contract is from award to 31/08/2020 with two (2) additional 1 year options to extend.
There is no security requirement associated with this requirement.
The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services.
The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement(CFTA).
This procurement is not subject to the Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement(s)
Basis of Selection lowest price per point
To be declared responsive, a bid must:
(a) comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation;
(b) meet all mandatory evaluation criteria; and
(c) obtain the required minimum 75 points for each technical criteria which are subject to point rating.
Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared non-responsive. Neither the responsive bid that receives the highest number of points nor the one that proposed the lowest price will necessarily be accepted. The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price per point will be recommended for award of a contract.
Mandatory criteria
Bidders MUST meet all the mandatory requirements of the RFP. No further consideration will be given to Bidders not meeting all the mandatory criteria.
M.1. Typesetter/Desktop Publisher
M.1.1 Bidders must identify one (1) individual who will be assigned as the Typesetter/Desktop Publisher to perform the typesetting/desktop publishing services under the Contract.
M.1.1.a Bidders must provide the full name (first and last name) of the individual assigned as the Typesetter/Desktop Publisher to perform the typesetting/desktop publishing work under the Contract.
M.1.2 The Typesetter/Desktop Publisher identified for M.1.1 must have obtained recent experience (beginning on or after June 30, 2007) as follows:
i) performing typesetting/desktop publishing services for a minimum of three (3) different publications;
ii) working with desktop publishing systems.
M.1.2.a Bidders must provide a detailed description of the publications identified for M.1.2.i).
Bidders must provide the following information for each of the (minimum of three [3]) different publications:
M.1.2.b Bidders must provide a list of the desktop publishing systems that the identified Typesetter/Desktop Publisher has obtained experience working with starting on or after June 30, 2007.
M.1.3 The Typesetter/Desktop Publisher identified for M.1.1 must have performed typesetting/desktop publishing services of supplied text for a publication in both official languages*
*for the purposes of M.1.3 ?a publication in both official languages? can be separate English and French versions of the same publication, separate English and French publications, or a bilingual (English and French) publication.
M.1.3.a Bidders must provide a brief description of the publication in both official languages* for which the Typesetter/Desktop Publisher performed typesetting/desktop publishing services from supplied text.
M.2. Corporate Experience
M.2.1 The Bidder must demonstrate that it has been contractually bound with an external client or with external clients (outside of the Bidder’s own company) for a minimum of one (1) and up to three (3) contracts* to provide typesetting/desktop publishing services as described in the Annex ?A? Statement of Work, in both English and French.
The Contract or Contracts must have been started or completed on or after June 30, 2007.
*The described contract or contracts must demonstrate all of the stated requirements of the M.2 mandatory criteria to be considered compliant with M.2. If the Bidder is submitting a description of one (1) contract that demonstrates all of the stated M.2 criteria, no additional contracts need to be described. The maximum number of contracts that can be provided to meet the stated M.2 criteria is three (3).
M.2.1.a For each of the contracts described for M.2.1, the Bidder must provide a description of the typesetting/desktop publishing (typesetting, page formatting and page layout) requirements for the publication or publications.
M.2.1.b For each of the contracts described for M.2.1, the Bidder must provide the client contact information (i.e. name of organization/business name).
M.2.1.c For each of the contracts described for M.2.1, the Bidder must provide the Contract start or end date, (i.e. April 2012 until present; April 2011 to June 2016, contract end date June 2016, contract start date June 2016).
M.2.2 For at least one (1) of the contracts described for M.2.1, the typesetting/desktop publishing services provided by the Bidder must have been or must be valued at a minimum of $25,000.00 (including all applicable taxes) per year.
M.2.2.a The Bidder must provide the total value (including applicable taxes) of the typesetting/desktop publishing services provided each year for the described contract.
M.2.3 At least one (1) of the contracts described for M.2.1 must have been or must be for the provision of typesetting/desktop publishing services for a legal or court style report or equivalent report/publication consisting of multiple volumes (more than one [1]) requiring consistent typesetting, page formatting and page layout between volumes.
M.2.3.a The Bidder must provide a description of typesetting/desktop publishing requirements of the legal or court style report or equivalent report/publication including the requirements for:
i) the typesetting of the supplied text,
ii) the page formatting and page layout of the text columns, paragraph numbers, pagination, headers, and rules, and
iii) a consistent page layout from page to page.
M.2.3.b The Bidder must provide the number of volumes of the legal or court style report or equivalent report/publication and a description of the requirements for consistent typesetting, page formatting and page layout between volumes.
M.2.4 At least one (1) of the contracts described for M.2.1 must have included a requirement for the provision of typesetting/desktop publishing services in both official languages*
M.2.4.a The Bidder must provide a brief description of the contract requirements for the provision of typesetting/desktop publishing services in both official languages.
M.3. Typesetting /Desktop Publishing Sample
To demonstrate that the identified Typesetter/desktop publisher (named in M.1) has the ability to provide the typesetting/desktop publishing services as specified in the Annex ?A? Statement of Work, the Bidder must submit the typesetting sample described in R.1.
Bidders must e-mail j••••••••@••••••••.••.ca to receive the test file that is required for the Bidder use to submit the R.1 Typesetting /Desktop publishing sample.
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
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